Homework Vocabulary

Weekly Vocabulary Your task from this page is to learn about new words. What do these words mean? Can you put them into a sentence? Focus on 4 words each week. Try to use them in some form of writing.

Thesaurus – UPSET - Disturbed

Week 3
agitated, amazed, antsy*, apprehensive, blue*, bothered, broken up*, capsized, chaotic, come apart*, confused, disconcerted, dismayed, disordered, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, dragged*, frantic, fussed, grieved, hurt, ill, jittery, jumpy, low, messed up, muddled, overturned, overwrought, psyched out*, put out, rattled, ruffled*, shocked, shook up*, sick, spilled, thrown, tipped over, toppled, troubled, tumbled, unglued*, unsettled, unzipped*, upside down, worried

Thesaurus – HUMOUR - Comedy

Week 4
amusement, badinage, banter, buffoonery, clowning, comicality, comicalness, drollery, facetiousness, farce, flippancy, fun, funniness, gag, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocularity, joke, joking, joyfulness, kidding, levity, lightness, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, salt, tomfoolery, whimsy, wisecrack, wit, witticism, wittiness

Thesaurus – FIGHT - Oppose

Week 5
argue, bicker, buck*, buckle down*, carry on, combat, conduct, contest, continue, defy, dispute, effect, endure, engage in, exert oneself, fall out, force, further, hammer away*, hassle, lay into*, maintain, oppose, persevere, persist, prosecute, push forward, repel, resist, row, squabble, strive, struggle, support, take on, take pains*, tangle with, toil on, travail, traverse, uphold, wage, withstand, wrangle

Thesaurus – HELP - Assist

Term 2 Week 1

abet, accommodate, advocate, aid, back, befriend, benefit, bolster, boost, cheer, cooperate, encourage, endorse, further, go with, intercede, maintain, open doors*, patronize, plug*, promote, prop, push, relieve, sanction, save, second, see through, serve, stand by, stimulate, stump for*, support, sustain, uphold, work for

Thesaurus – BRIGHT - Shining

Term 2 Week 2

ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike limpid, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, vivid

Thesaurus – STRONG - Powerful Term 2 Week 3

able, able-bodied, active, athletic, beefy, big, brawny, bulk, burly, capable, durable, enduring, energetic, firm, fixed, forceful, forcible, hale, hardy, healthy, hearty, heavy, heavy-duty*, husky, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, reinforced, robust, rugged, secure, sinewy, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stark, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tough, unyielding, vigorous, virile, well-built, well-founded

Thesaurus – PAIN - Suffering Term 2 Week 4

affliction, agony, anguish, anxiety, bitterness, despondency, distress, grief, heartache, hurt, malaise, martyrdom, misery, rack, sadness, shock, suffering, torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe, worry, wretchedness

Thesaurus – ANNOY - Irritate Term Week 5

abrade, agitate, badger, be at*, bedevil, beleaguer, bore, bother, break, bug, burn up, chafe, displease, distress, disturb, egg on*, exasperate, fire up*, gall, get, gnaw, harass, harry, heat up*, henpeck, hit on, hot up, irk, madden, make waves*, miff, nag, needle, nettle, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, provoke, ride, rile, ruffle, tease, tick off*, trouble, turn off*, vex, work on*, worry